A 2-year postdoctoral position in experimental biophysics will be available from May 1 2009 in connection with the project Aquaporin membranes for water filtration.

The project is supported by a grant from the Danish National High-technology Foundation. The project involves collaboration with other academic groups and two companies.

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At The Department of Physics, NTNU there is vacant one post doctor position within the project “Responsive (bio)polymer matrices as Fabry-Perot cavities: A versatile platform for development of nanostructured (bio)polymer materials”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The position is in the biopolymer physics/bionanotechnology research field, conducted within the Division of Biophysics and Medical Technology at the Department. The project involves cooperation with the research group NOBIPOL at Department of Biotechnology, and will also be carried out in collaboration with international research groups in Grenoble and Tokyo. The post doctor will be appointed for a period of 3 years. The position is related to the national research school “Nanotechnology for microsystems”. The position is organized at Department of Physics. Currently, there are 30 professors, 9 associate professors, 6 adjunct professors, 55 PhD research fellows and 19 postdoctoral positions appointed at the Department.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowiship in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University
(ref.no. 463-15-09)

The Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science at Stockholm University. The department has 120 employees and approximately 1500 students. The main research disciplines are Geomorphology, Glaciology, Climatology, Quaternary Geology, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, Geographical Data Processing, Ecological Geography and Tropical Geography. Teaching is oriented towards geography, earth sciences, geosciences and environmental protection.

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Every year UNU-IAS (United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies) offers PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships to provide young scholars and policy-makers, especially from the developing world, with a multi-disciplinarily context within which to pursue advanced research and training that is of professional interest to the successful applicant and of direct relevance to the research agenda of their selected UNU-IAS or UNU-ISP programme.

The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) is now open. About 8-10 fellowships will be awarded in total in 2009 for three types of fellowships:

• UNU-IAS PhD Fellowships
• UNU-IAS Postdoctoral Fellowships
• JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowships

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